Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

T follicular helper and T follicular regulatory cells have different TCR specificity

  • Ana Raquel Maceiras,
  • Silvia Cristina Paiva Almeida,
  • Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz,
  • Wahiba Chaara,
  • Fadi Jebbawi,
  • Adrien Six,
  • Shohei Hori,
  • David Klatzmann,
  • Jose Faro,
  • Luis Graca

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15067
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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T follicular helper and regulatory cells are generated in the germinal centre; however, whether antigen specificity defines their differential functions is unclear. Here the authors show that T cells with distinct antigen specificity spectra are recruited to the germinal centre to establish these two populations.